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Heidegger in Benjamin’s City

Heidegger in Benjamin’s City

Jeff Malpas

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The MIT Press

DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262016841.003.0012

This chapter describes how Heidegger might find himself in Benjamin’s city, and what the place of this city might be in Heidegger’s own thought. Walter Benjamin’s work, in contrast to Heidegger’s association with the rural and the provincial, is inextricably bound up with the images and ideas associated with the metropolitan spaces and places that figure so prominently in his writing. The discussion begins by leaving Benjamin and focusing first on the provincialism that so pervaded Heidegger’s thinking—if not his world. From this it is possible to conclude that Heidegger’s thought is not merely rooted in peasant life, but actively extols it in opposition to the rise of the urban, the metropolitan, and also, of course, the modern.

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